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“I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.”

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The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

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The more education you do, the less you are capable of doing.

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In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory.

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The tendency of experts is to fiddle around with their expertise rather than trying to find new solutions.

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Change the way you think, and you are already halfway to changing the world.

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We think of speaking as something we do naturally, without any effort. But like playing music, it requires attention and knowledge and practice.

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Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom…

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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the…

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Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

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I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!

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The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…

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